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When I was going to school in Logan I talked to several people who would use hamburger to catch the fish they stocked in the impounds on the Logan River. They all seemed to do very well. I never tried it myself, but I saw other people have a lot of success using it.
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How would you keep it on your hook? Wrap it in cheesecloth or mesh of some sort?
If burger works then a piece of round or sirloin should also and could cut that into strips of all sorts of shapes.
Is it so easy and simple no one has figured it out or is it truly the secret weapon that no one has given up the secret?
Until now.
I just know it. Someone out there knew and has been holding out.
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I wouldn't dought it because I have used chicken strips in a pinch for catfish and sturgeon
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Just wondering. I can always call him old School.
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Why wouldn't it work....that's all. You just never hear about it.
Marshmallows, corn, chemicals, maggots, a piece of wood with a hook in it, a piece of metal, and just about anything you can think of will catch a fish. Why not a big mac to catch a whopper?
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Years ago when I was a young pup, it was said that the hatcherys would feed the fish hamburger and many people started using it. Kind of the secret bait at that time. I think the fellow you talked with was from that era, always did well and still uses it. For the price of hamburger today it seems a can of worms would make more sense. Probably catch more in the long run. I never tried using hamburger though so cant really give an honest comparison.
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All meat will undoubtedly work. I remember as a kid about 7 we'd grab hotdogs or bologna and jump on our bikes and go fish ponds for gills and catfish. A couple years ago in a pinch before stores opened in Hawaii I used a few fatty strips of left over steak with very good success. Pork rind has been use at least back to the days of Hemingway fishing the Stream out of Havana for marlin. I think they put a lure behind it to make it look like a fish chasing bait typically but the scent surely helps as well.
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I dont know about fish, but you'd definitely catch me on some burger or steak!!
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I'm sure it would work, but I wouldn't really want to have all that nasty burger all over my hands. Can anybody say e coli? Not that hands don't get nasty when you're fishing, but it doesn't sound that pleasant to me.
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Be just like fishing with chicken livers.......
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Tuna in oil tied up in a spawn sac works really well for salmon. I've heard stories from an old fisherman I know that claims Ball Packing in Idaho Falls used to dump all of the meat scraps in the Snake, and he would go down there with beef as bait and catch monster browns.
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i don't see why it wouldnt work. it would secrete blood and a ton of scent. not sure how you would use it > i guess you could use the roe/ tuna netting. it is an interesting idea. i wonder how antelope burger would work ? i will have too try this for cats this summer....
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I lived in Logan for a couple of years during grad school right by the lower dam. I saw an multiople occasions and actually fished with it 3-4 times before we moved. You could not keep the fish off of the hook. I did notice that most all of the fish caught were rainbow stockers and not the browns that I like to catch.
If you roll the hamburger with flour it stays on the hook much better.
I prefer to fish other ways but with kids it kept the action fast and they stayed interested.
I have not tried it since we moved to idaho 5 years ago.
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Hello,
Yes people on the Logan River Dams seem to use hamburger for bait, and it works. I am unsure why people use it in this area, but they do. The albino trout go crazy for it. Kind of weird that people only use it in this area.
I live very close to Logan, and the debate has always been is hamburger legal or not to use? I don't know why it wouldn't be, but I have heard it is not allowed???
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